Ambedkar's address was found by the Reception Committee to be unacceptable. But the conference itself was cancelled because Dr. Ambedkar was to have presided last May at the annual conference of the Jat-Pat-Todak Mandal of Lahore. The readers will recall the fact that Dr. He defended the right of Ambedkar to deliver his speech and condemned the Jat-Pat-Todak Mandal for rejecting the President of its choice because the Mandal already knew Ambedkar was a staunch critic of Hinduism and caste system:
In July 1936, Mahatma Gandhi wrote articles under the title "A Vindication Of Caste" in his weekly journal (Harijans) in which he made comments on Ambedkar's address.
to destroy the religious notions upon which caste is founded" Gandhi's response He argued that inter-caste dining and inter-caste marriage is not sufficient to annihilate the caste system, but that "the real method of breaking up the Caste System was. In the essay, Ambedkar criticised the Hindu religion, its caste system and its religious texts which are male dominant and spreading hatred and suppression of female interests. Ambedkar subsequently published 1500 copies of the speech as a book on at his own expense as Jat-Pat Todak Mandal failed to fulfill their word. After much deliberation, the committee of organizers decided to cancel their annual conference in its entirety, because they feared violence by orthodox Hindus at the venue if they held the event after withdrawing the invitation to him. They wrote to Ambedkar seeking the removal of sections which they found, in their words, "unbearable." Ambedkar declared in response that he "would not change a comma" of his text. The organisers found some of the content to be objectionable towards the orthodox Hindu religion, so intemperate in the idiom and vocabulary used, and so incendiary in promoting conversion away from Hinduism, that they sought the deletion of large sections of the more controversial content endangering Brahmanical interests. Ambedkar wrote the speech as an essay under the title "Annihilation of Caste" and sent in advance to the organisers in Lahore for printing and distribution. Ambedkar to deliver a speech on the caste system in India at their annual conference in 1936. Though B.R Ambedkar’s journey was not easy, he accomplished it with sincere dedication, determination and hard work his quotes motivate us to do the same.In a letter dated 12 December 1935, the secretary of the Jat-Pat Todak Mandal (Society for the Break Up of Caste system), an anti-caste Hindu reformist group organisation based in Lahore, invited B. R. We have excerpted his thought-provoking and relevant quotes from his speeches, and writings. We all know that Ambedkar was a great motivator, speaker, political thinker and social activist and spoke and wrote about varied sugjects.
Last but not the least, Ambedkar was also instrumental in framing India’s constitution after it gained independence. Additionally, he was an extremely important member of the Indian freedom struggle and published plenty of journals on the negotiations related to the process. However, he is most famous for his activities as a social reformer who fought against the Hindu caste system and the discrimination against untouchables. He became a professor and was regarded as a gifted political thinker, lawyer and economist. Ambedkar then went to study Economics at Columbia University on a scholarship and finally got his doctorate from London School of Economics in 1923. He studied at the well-known Elphinstone High School in Mumbai and became the only untouchable who was enrolled there. Ambedkar was born in a Dalit family and his experiences of segregation as a school student had a profound effect on his life. Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar also known as Baba Saheb was an Indian politician, jurist, social re-former and economist, who rose to prominence in the 20th century and is particularly famous for having championed the cause of dalits or the ‘untouchables’ in India.
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